Bitcoin holds a tight 24-hour range between $108,221 and $109,453 on Sunday, Aug. 31, 2025, while derivatives positioning stays elevated across futures and options markets.
Derivatives Depth Continues to Swell
Futures remain thick. Aggregate bitcoin futures open interest on major venues hovers in the mid-$80 billion area, according to coinglass.com, near the upper end of the past year’s band.
Several digital assets have hit all-time highs this year, and just last week ethereum ( ETH) climbed to a price peak not seen since 2021. Below is a look at the leading digital asset market caps, their latest peaks, and how close each coin is to reclaiming those heights.
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Galactic cannonballs: The mystery of hypervelocity white dwarfs may just have been solved
September 1, 2025
White dwarfs — the superdense, slowly cooling embers left behind when stars like our sun die — are usually quiet cosmic relics. A rare few, however, are anything but.
In recent years, astronomers analyzing data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft…
Spaceflight has a broad impact on the way our body functions — and that includes our reproductive systems. Indeed, to get a better idea of how future pregnancies and new generations born to humans beyond Earth will be affected, scientists need to examine how well our reproductive germ cells and stem cells respond to potentially harmful factors, like radiation and microgravity.
Researchers from…
Watch a burnt and battered Starship splash down in Indian Ocean to wrap up historic Flight 10 (video, photos)
September 1, 2025
Spectacular new footage gives us great looks at the final moments of the latest test flight of Starship, the huge rocket SpaceX is developing to help humanity settle Mars.
That mission, the 10th-ever for the 397-foot-tall (121-meter-tall) megarocket, lifted off from…
How Intuit killed the chatbot crutch – and built an agentic AI playbook you can copy
September 1, 2025
In the frenzied land rush for generative AI that followed ChatGPT’s debut, the mandate from Intuit’s CEO was clear: ship the company’s largest, most shocking AI-driven launch by Sept. 2023.
Responding with blazing speed, the $200 billion company behind QuickBooks…
How Sakana AI’s new evolutionary algorithm builds powerful AI models without expensive retraining
September 1, 2025
A new evolutionary technique from Japan-based AI lab Sakana AI enables developers to augment the capabilities of AI models without costly training and fine-tuning processes. The technique, called Model Merging of Natural Niches (M2N2), overcomes the limitations of other model merging methods and can even evolve new models entirely from scratch.
M2N2 can be applied to different types of machine…
Software commands 40% of cybersecurity budgets as gen AI attacks execute in milliseconds
September 1, 2025
“With volatility now the norm, security and risk leaders need practical guidance on managing existing spending and new budgetary necessities,” states Forrester’s 2026 Budget Planning Guide, revealing a fundamental shift in how organizations allocate cybersecurity…
A new exhibition of Paul McCartney’s own photographs reminds me that being in the moment is the overriding principle of great photography
September 1, 2025
I’m a big enough fan of The Beatles that I sat through eight hours of Peter Jackson’s meticulously restored footage of the ‘Fab Four’ working on their final studio album in Disney+ docuseries, The Beatles: Get Back. So news of a Beatles-themed photography exhibition…
This stunning image captures beauty – and the biggest threat facing the night sky, shot with a 17-year-old Canon DSLR
September 1, 2025
The night sky is one of the most magical subjects – but capturing it is becoming increasingly difficult. With the 2025 Capture the Dark contest, DarkSky International not only showcases breathtaking astrophotography from around the world but also draws urgent attention to the growing threat of light pollution.
Capture the Dark has become a global stage for responsible night sky photography.
